Alan Shearer

You can perhaps...

get away with Southampton because of the number of changes that he made.

But then you go really strong in the Champions League against Sporting.

Didn't play that well, but you get the win and you think, right, okay, it's time to kick on now and take that belief and confidence into the game against Bournemouth.

Because I really felt if they had won yesterday, I think that was almost done.

Yeah.

I know what they're going through and I feel what they're going through because I've been there myself.

What do they have to do?

You've got to somehow show some... You've got to get your big players, your leaders, your big characters.

You've got to... Those guys have got to come out fighting and punching and scrapping and not literally, but you know, in terms of...

Give me the ball.

Because what would worry me more than anything yesterday was there were players who were prepared to get the ball and pass it backwards.

Give it to someone else as if to say, well, can you go and do something special?

Because I'm a little bit nervous, you know, and that's what the performance...

It screamed out yesterday for me.

That's a concerning thing.

So the big players have to put in big performances and somehow go and get the result next weekend against City because...

As I said, I always say, as a player, you've got the chance of the right of reply and they've got to go and do that.

And a win or a point at Manchester City, then I think that would do them the world of good.

But it's not easy.